Carlisle has become a halfway house for Glaswegians trapped on their journeys home by the Beast from the east.

With no trains running from the town for the past two days and the roads too dangerous for replacement bus services, hundreds have been stranded at the last stop before Scotland.

Carlisle's Premier Inn is still receiving stranded guests with trains still arriving from other parts of England. The only problem is that when they arrive they are trapped and unable to go any further.

Many of those stuck even have cars but made the decision to pull in after reports of road closures.

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Robert Ferguson (53) was heading home to Cardonald from a meeting. "My wife warned me it wouldn’t be safe to travel, but I didn't think it would be this bad. I'm sorry now I didn’t listen as trains are off for another day. It's a nightmare."

Andy Collins (44) was only supposed to be in Manchester for a couple of hours and straight back up to work in Glasgow but couldn't get any further than Carlisle.

"There's a chance I might get home today, but we've been told it might even be Saturday now. I've never seen anything like this. Nobody is going anywhere. We're all stuck. Plus my wife is on her own back home with our children who are only toddlers."

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It's not just Scots trying to go North trapped in Carlisle, as The Beast From The East has now swept round and cut off routes south as well.

Elderly couple Jim and Claire from Devon are trying to get to Aberdeen, but decided to stop in Carlisle instead of continuing on their journey as they’d heard the M80 was bad: "We pulled into this hotel to decide whether we would go any further, but now we're trapped as we can’t go up or back home as there’s a red warning for South West England too."

These are just some of the stories from the hundreds stuck waiting for The Beast to ease off and roads and rail to reopen.

No trains are running again today with Virgin unable to put on replacement buses due to safety fears.